Project Name: JISC IE Metadata Schema Registry (IEMSR)

Phase 1: January 2004 – June 2005

Phase 2: July 2005 – September 2006

Phase 3: October 2006 – August 2009

End Date: August 2009

Governance:IEEE

Contact Name and Role: Emma Tonkin

Brief project description: ‘IEMSR stands for ‘Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry’. The IEMSR is a prototype service that is designed to collect and serve information about metadata sets such as: metadata schemas, application profiles, metadata elements and encodings.’

Brief project description: ‘The overall aim of the project is to investigate how comprehensive deployment of OpenURL resolvers can assist the productivity of staff and students in all UK higher and further education in using journal content and the like within the JISC IE.
The objectives for the project are:

The main output from this project is the establishment of the University of Hertfordshire Research Archive. It is described as “.. a showcase of the research produced by the University of Hertfordshire staff (copyright permitting) which is freely available over the web” and ” .. provides a simple interface to enable researchers to self-archive the full text of their published work with just a few quick and easy steps.”

Additional information:

Comments:

The archive/repository appears to be fully functional and contains 2556 items as at 30th January 2007.